Ruth
@ruthbushi.com
Freelance writer in Cumbria. Covers film & fiction at www.thehaughtyculturist.com. Author, 'Decoding The Turn of the Screw.' Bridport Prize winner, 2025!
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🎶Why do bards suddenly appear,
Ev’ry time you are near?
Just like me
They long to be
Or not to be
Close to yooooooou🎶
Ev’ry time you are near?
Just like me
They long to be
Or not to be
Close to yooooooou🎶
December 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🎶Why do bards suddenly appear,
Ev’ry time you are near?
Just like me
They long to be
Or not to be
Close to yooooooou🎶
Ev’ry time you are near?
Just like me
They long to be
Or not to be
Close to yooooooou🎶
Ruin two bands by combining them:
TaTu2
TaTu2
Ruin two bands by combining them:
Godspeed you! Half Biscuit
Godspeed you! Half Biscuit
ruin two bands by combining them:
Ned's Atomic Kitten
Ned's Atomic Kitten
December 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Ruin two bands by combining them:
TaTu2
TaTu2
I'm sorry - Nigel *Farage* says this? The one who ... ??
"Farage said ... "It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr el-Fattah should not be allowed into the UK."
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"Farage said ... "It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr el-Fattah should not be allowed into the UK."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Home secretary urged to strip activist of British citizenship
Shabana Mahmood is facing growing calls to revoke the citizenship of British-Egyptian dual national Alaa Abdel Fattah after the emergence of social media posts.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I'm sorry - Nigel *Farage* says this? The one who ... ??
"Farage said ... "It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr el-Fattah should not be allowed into the UK."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Farage said ... "It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr el-Fattah should not be allowed into the UK."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I wonder if "kin" shares a root with German's diminutive "chen"? i.e., Hund (dog) -> Hundchen (puppy).
-kin and -chen look like words that could have been pronounced similarly at some point...
-kin and -chen look like words that could have been pronounced similarly at some point...
The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”
So a napkin is a little tablecloth.
10/10, no notes.
December 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I wonder if "kin" shares a root with German's diminutive "chen"? i.e., Hund (dog) -> Hundchen (puppy).
-kin and -chen look like words that could have been pronounced similarly at some point...
-kin and -chen look like words that could have been pronounced similarly at some point...
TIL: the little guy who makes the moonshine is shouting "Down the British!" which makes sense considering it's the 4th of July. But all these years, I thought he was shouting "Down the bread hatch," and assumed it was just something adults / Americans say when they mean "Bottoms up." boxd.it/chxLjf
A review of The Great Escape (1963)
Today I leaned: the little guy who makes the moonshine is shouting "Down the British!" which makes sense considering it's the 4th of July. But all these years, I thought he was shouting "Down the brea...
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December 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
TIL: the little guy who makes the moonshine is shouting "Down the British!" which makes sense considering it's the 4th of July. But all these years, I thought he was shouting "Down the bread hatch," and assumed it was just something adults / Americans say when they mean "Bottoms up." boxd.it/chxLjf
Brigitte Bardot, friend to animals but not "immigrants, gays, and the unemployed"
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December 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Brigitte Bardot, friend to animals but not "immigrants, gays, and the unemployed"
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Americans love telling stories about the moral injury of committing war crimes. This is not a new, important, unexplored line of inquiry - it’s the primary way we’ve managed to center ourselves in stories where we’re otherwise the villains.
December 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Americans love telling stories about the moral injury of committing war crimes. This is not a new, important, unexplored line of inquiry - it’s the primary way we’ve managed to center ourselves in stories where we’re otherwise the villains.
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
December 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
The one thing we can say for certain from the Epstein files is that celebrities really will go *anywhere* on someone else's dime.
December 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The one thing we can say for certain from the Epstein files is that celebrities really will go *anywhere* on someone else's dime.
Thirty-seven years after the Lockerbie bombing, and there's still so much unresolved. Two hundred and seventy people killed, December 21, 1988.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_...
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Pan Am Flight 103 - Wikipedia
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December 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Thirty-seven years after the Lockerbie bombing, and there's still so much unresolved. Two hundred and seventy people killed, December 21, 1988.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_...
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Just found out I won’t have a job come January. As well as starting the regular job hunt, I thought I’d reach out here to see if anyone knew of any proofreading/editing/compliance opportunities. Or just opportunities! Apologies if this is gauche, but if you don’t shoot your shot, as the kids say 🎄
December 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Just found out I won’t have a job come January. As well as starting the regular job hunt, I thought I’d reach out here to see if anyone knew of any proofreading/editing/compliance opportunities. Or just opportunities! Apologies if this is gauche, but if you don’t shoot your shot, as the kids say 🎄
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It's only a novella if it comes from the foothills of the Novel mountains in Italy. Otherwise it's just sparkling prose.
December 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's only a novella if it comes from the foothills of the Novel mountains in Italy. Otherwise it's just sparkling prose.
I would absolutely get myself to a cinema for Disclosure Day - or any Spielberg sci-fi - but the trailer either desperately needs a fan edit, or has been dropped too soon ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...
#FilmSky #DisclosureDay #SciFi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...
#FilmSky #DisclosureDay #SciFi
Disclosure Day | Official Teaser
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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December 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I would absolutely get myself to a cinema for Disclosure Day - or any Spielberg sci-fi - but the trailer either desperately needs a fan edit, or has been dropped too soon ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...
#FilmSky #DisclosureDay #SciFi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...
#FilmSky #DisclosureDay #SciFi
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There are those who proudly define their lives by what they hate and those that define their fight with love - I will remain in the latter group - I am sad that so many prefer to define themselves by hate , but encouraged by all those who use love as their motivation
December 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
There are those who proudly define their lives by what they hate and those that define their fight with love - I will remain in the latter group - I am sad that so many prefer to define themselves by hate , but encouraged by all those who use love as their motivation
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
The funny thing about forcing yourself to write fiction more often, and more regularly, is that you find yourself confronting awful prose, and ideas that don't quite gel, in a way that you can happily evade if you write sporadically. It's not actually funny, of course - but it's something.
December 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The funny thing about forcing yourself to write fiction more often, and more regularly, is that you find yourself confronting awful prose, and ideas that don't quite gel, in a way that you can happily evade if you write sporadically. It's not actually funny, of course - but it's something.
Thoughts on first-time watching Child's Play, the 80s film with a fearsome reputation, but more laughs than horror.
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#Letterboxf #FilmSky
boxd.it/c2amZp
#Letterboxf #FilmSky
A review of Child's Play (1988)
It's interesting - and strange - to watch Child's Play for the first time almost forty years after its original release. Growing up in the UK at the time, this film had a whole other cultural resonanc...
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December 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Thoughts on first-time watching Child's Play, the 80s film with a fearsome reputation, but more laughs than horror.
boxd.it/c2amZp
#Letterboxf #FilmSky
boxd.it/c2amZp
#Letterboxf #FilmSky
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
Have high hopes for the Letterboxd video store but the opening selection seems kinda pricey (for my pocket) and if you can't watch - and pay - in-app then it feels quite hurdly. But early days and all that. Hope it goes well.
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Have high hopes for the Letterboxd video store but the opening selection seems kinda pricey (for my pocket) and if you can't watch - and pay - in-app then it feels quite hurdly. But early days and all that. Hope it goes well.
Found the Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories on the Marie Curie secondhand shelf in the supermarket so RAN home to get some change, then RAN back to the supermarket. Putting the book in my bag, I found my coin purse! But I don't mind; "es ist für mich," as the good man said. #BookSky
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Found the Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories on the Marie Curie secondhand shelf in the supermarket so RAN home to get some change, then RAN back to the supermarket. Putting the book in my bag, I found my coin purse! But I don't mind; "es ist für mich," as the good man said. #BookSky
... The Godfather is better than The Godfather Part II, but the latter has set-ups like this, and in fact, countless others where the centre of the shot is absent, and the action happens at the edges. Here, Al watches Michael greet Fredo ... and waits for Mike's nod to kill his his brother.
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
... The Godfather is better than The Godfather Part II, but the latter has set-ups like this, and in fact, countless others where the centre of the shot is absent, and the action happens at the edges. Here, Al watches Michael greet Fredo ... and waits for Mike's nod to kill his his brother.
First thoughts on Humans in the Loop and, for me, how this cautionary tale of AI chimes with anti-Indian sentiment in the global gaze. Currently streaming on @Netflix in the UK and worth a look. 📽️ #FilmSky
www.thehaughtyculturist.com/films/humans-in-the-loop-2024-film-review/
www.thehaughtyculturist.com/films/humans-in-the-loop-2024-film-review/
Humans in the Loop (2024): Deftly told tale of India and AI | Review
A simple story with many threads, Humans in the Loop proves haunting and painful on the things we stand to lose.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
First thoughts on Humans in the Loop and, for me, how this cautionary tale of AI chimes with anti-Indian sentiment in the global gaze. Currently streaming on @Netflix in the UK and worth a look. 📽️ #FilmSky
www.thehaughtyculturist.com/films/humans-in-the-loop-2024-film-review/
www.thehaughtyculturist.com/films/humans-in-the-loop-2024-film-review/
For any one who would like to listen - especially other discouraged writers - here's my short piece on BBC Late Show last night (around the 2 HR 20 mark)
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#WritingCommunity
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The Late Show - Armed robbery and The Roadtrip of My Life (12/11/2025) - BBC Sounds
Becky speaks to a man who was once in a gang but now helps support young people.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
For any one who would like to listen - especially other discouraged writers - here's my short piece on BBC Late Show last night (around the 2 HR 20 mark)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#WritingCommunity
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#WritingCommunity